They Died With Their Boots On

After The Adventures of Robin Hood, this is Errol Flynns best movie. As noted elsewhere, its worthless as history. But the casting of Flynn as Custer has a resonance that burns up the screen, and behind the romanticism one glimpses a portrait of an unhappy, self-destructive man who is a hero in spite of himself. Flynns farewell scene with Olivia de Havilland is almost unbearably moving, as if both sensed the real-life parallel and the future awaiting them both. This is a rousing, action-packed movie with just about everything: adventure, comedy and romance... but its one of the rare ones that also gets under your skin.

Forget about of the historical inaccuracies (specially in the final scenes)... SON OF THE MORNING STAR has a much better Little Big Horn reenactment.

love these old time western movies thank y6ou.

This is a typical Hollywood version of George Custers military life. However, Errol Flynn was perfectly cast for the role. I gave it two stars because it just ok.

Good buy at a good price.

This was the movie I grew up on as a kid...my favorite.......is it historically accurate. No. But you know, precious little is of Custer. Remember he peaked at age 25 in his military career and never really grew as a person. I suspect the depth played by Flynn far exceeds that of the real Custer. This movie also was released about the same time Pearl Harbor actually occurred. It is good, healthy, fun and entertainment, does not put Native Americans in a bad light......enjoy it. It is American History as we want it to be, and thats not always bad.

Fun to watch as an example of the time. Typical Flynn and typical twisting of history. This guy should have studied tactics more at West Point. He was asking for it.

very excellent movie about Custer

Anyone familiar with this film and also the accounts (as best we know them) of Custers last stand at the Little Big Horn already know of its historical inaccuracies. it was the Hollywood version of who was then still regarded as a flamboyant hero of the West. One only needs to view Dustin Hoffmans Little Big Man, made decades later, to have an idea of just how far adulation for George Armstrong Custer had fallen.

Probably his last great film (after this Flynns legal problems mounted and Warner Brothers tended to put him in westerns and lower-budget action movies). His last pairing with Olivia Dehavilland as well. The DVD copy is well-restored and it has some nice extras. Too bad no one has restored his other film Santa Fe Trail, with Dehavilland and Ronald Reagan -- the public domain copies out there are appallingly poor.